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Note on the Title The second symbol in the title is an “epsilon.” It sounds Greek. It sounds geek! It’s

In my previous piece, I outlined this pervasive feeling of being <, this mix of imposter syndrome, stereotype threat, and

When I was young, probably 4th grade or so, my mother told me I wasn’t a “S.T.E.M. person.” My mother

Beginning in Fall 2019, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics stopped offering Math 26 which covered advanced topics in single-variable

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As

Why does my math class have so few girls? Why did the engineering department here have only one female professor

In a recent piece for the Phoenix, “Why Mathematical Reasoning Should Be a Part of Civic Education,” Zhicheng Fan advocates

We now live in a world where reason and truth are under siege on a daily basis. The Economist declares

It is no secret that some racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the math, engineering, and the sciences. According

Olivia Edwards ’14 knew she wanted to major in biology when she came to college. In order to do that,